Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-30 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 29 June 2012 23:41, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 06/29/2012 05:29 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Domto...@rpdom.net Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. /snip/ I've looked at this thread a number of

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Davies
Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com wrote: It was about cp reporting 'no space left on device', whilst df said that there was space available. The OS reported No space left on device (or more accurately, errno 28: ENOSPC) to cp. Rather than trying to guess whether this really meant what it said or

Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-29 Thread peasthope
From: Dom to...@rpdom.net Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. Nice analysis! On FAT12 (and FAT16, iirc) there is a limit of 512 files in the root directory. Other directories don't have this limit. I found additional

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-29 Thread Doug
On 06/29/2012 05:29 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Domto...@rpdom.net Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. /snip/ I've looked at this thread a number of times, but I was then and still am puzzled. According to Linux in a

Re (4): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-29 Thread peasthope
From: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:41:17 -0400 cp ... none of the options mentions determining the size of a file- system or the remaining space therein. The primary function seen by the user is copying. The relative size of the projectile and its target are

Re: Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Berni Elbourn
On 28/06/12 05:45, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: How can df report MiBs available while cp reports No space left on device? peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43* Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd1 498648 18840479808 4% /media/4345-A417

Re: Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-06-28 09:32 +0200, Berni Elbourn wrote: On 28/06/12 05:45, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: How can df report MiBs available while cp reports No space left on device? peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43* Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd1

Re: Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Chris Davies
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: How can df report MiBs available while cp reports No space left on device? peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43* Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd1 498648 18840479808 4% /media/4345-A417 It's possible that

Re (2): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread peasthope
From: Berni Elbourn berni...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:32:29 +0100 Are there too many files in target folder? 197 files here whereas Wikipedia mentions 65,460 files for 32 KB clusters. From: Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:47:21 +0100 What is

Re: Re (2): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-28 Thread Dom
On 28/06/12 16:18, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Berni Elbournberni...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 08:32:29 +0100 Are there too many files in target folder? 197 files here whereas Wikipedia mentions 65,460 files for 32 KB clusters. From: Chris Davieschris-use...@roaima.co.uk

Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-27 Thread peasthope
How can df report MiBs available while cp reports No space left on device? peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43* Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd1 498648 18840479808 4% /media/4345-A417 peter@dalton:~$ ls -l Mail.Text -rw--- 1 peter